Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the state will be a strictly authoritarian one could not be doubted after the oath which was sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive...
...York parents were shocked. Soon parents, teachers, Mayor LaGuardia, the Board of Estimate and the City Council demanded that Governor Lehman call the Legislature into special session to restore the $5,300,000 it had pared from State aid to the city's schools. Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted...
Inspired by a tract called "The First Dancing Lesson" (Leander Smith, 808 Avenue E., Council Bluffs, Iowa), and grged on by what they described as the "moral degeneracy" of the examination period, Clarence L. Alexander '40 Paul J. Goldheizer '40, and Joseph W. Barber '40, have begun an intensive campaign...
...Juniors have been elected to the Undergraduate Athletic Council for 1939-40 and three others have been nominated to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The nomination of the latter three is subject to the approval of the Corporation...
...Juniors elected to the Undergraduate Athletic Council and the sports they represent are as follows: baseball, Thomas V. Healey; basketball, Samuel W. White, Jr.; crew, Donald C. Watson, Jr.; football, William C. Coleman, Jr.; hockey, David C. Eaton; swimming, Erie Cutler; track, Guilliaem Aertsen, 3d; minor sports, Edmund S. Childs, Jr.; Langdon B. Gilkey; and James A. Rousmaniere...